The councilman of Medellín, Albert Corredor, announced this Saturday that he renounces the endorsement of the Democratic Center, the party with which he was elected. Through a video on his Twitter account, he stated that he was leaving the community 24 hours before the presidential elections because he wants to carry out a political project since independence.
“We resign from the Democratic Center party, we do it today, 24 hours before the presidential elections, which are going to be the most important elections in the recent history of our country,” Corredor said.
Things between the councilor and the party had been going badly for several months and worsened amid the decision of the national directives to sanction him and his three companions on the bench, Nataly Vélez, Lina García and María Paulina Aguinaga, because they would have disputed the decisions of the community in the events surrounding the election of the Board of Directors of the Council and the so-called “Pact of Chuscalito”. Said sanction included the loss of the right to vote.
However, a decision by the National Electoral Council returned that right to the four corporations, who maintain a distance and a deteriorated relationship with his colleagues Alfredo Ramos, Simón Molina, Sebastián López and Julio González, declared opponents of the current administration.
Corredor was also in a strange political situation, because although he had the endorsement of the Democratic Center, he also has a close friendship and affinity with Mayor Daniel Quintero, who is temporarily suspended from office. In fact, Corredor was one of those who recently accompanied him to Washington to present his case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
After announcing the news, Quintero celebrated on his Twitter account. “24 hours before the elections, Councilman Albert Corredor resigns from the Democratic Center. He will walk the path of independence following the court ruled him right in his dispute once morest Uribe and an anachronistic racist and sexist party. Good for him and for Medellín,” he wrote.
Likewise, the decision to resign from the party was preceded by a frontal dispute with former president Álvaro Uribe, whom Corredor publicly asked in recent days to resign from the party.
At that time, Corredor also criticized other party decisions and said that they had been given the order to vote once morest Mayor’s projects that in his opinion should be voted in favor, such as the initiative to change the legal nature of the public airport establishment. Olaya Herrera or the alienation of the shares that EPM keeps in UNE, an issue that is currently being debated in the Council.
